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A Post By John Pavlovitz

I want you to know, to see…Why. Why I can never ever trust you or be in relationship with you so long as you are not only not bothered by trump the absolute fucker, you also actively support him…

These words below, the italicized being trump the absolute fucker’s actual words…and the words below that the words of my friend John Pavlovitz, who says it so well:

“‘I moved on her, actually. You know, she was down on Palm Beach. I moved on her, and I failed. I’ll admit it.

I did try and f*ck her. She was married.I moved on her very heavily. In fact, I took her out furniture shopping.She wanted to get some furniture. I said, “I’ll show you where they have some nice furniture.” I took her out furniture —I moved on her like a bitch. But I couldn’t get there. And she was married. Then all of a sudden I see her, she’s now got the big phony tits and everything. She’s totally changed her look.

Yeah, that’s her. With the gold.

I better use some Tic Tacs just in case I start kissing her. You know, I’m automatically attracted to beautiful — I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab ’em by the p*ssy. You can do anything.’“There were plenty of moments before and since of course, but looking back this was a pivot point—one that changed me irrevocably.It made me feel estranged around people I used to feel at home with and it derailed my hope that decency would prevail.

“And so in many ways this was the moment of my emancipation from feeling obligated to make nice with them; because despite his woefully malignant words and everything they pointed to about his character, his predatory behavior, his misogyny, his indecency, his infidelity, his disregard for the humanity of women,62 million adults, many of them professed Christians essentially said “This is my guy.”

“And if you were among those who said it, you can justify it or rationalize it away or spin it any way you want—and I’ll politely but unapologetically tell you you’re full of it.

“You can pile every real or imagined boogeyman in front of me as a reasonable defense, but at the end of the day you elevated the man who saidthese wordsand was guilty ofthis behaviorto the highest office in our country, awarding him the greatest power—and that is solely on you.I will not share the blame with my silence.”

I cannot. I cannot treat you the same anymore, having seen what lurks beneath, now that trump has torn off your mask. It is for me as if you are asking me to welcome David Duke as okay…or the KKK as okay…or a rapist as okay…

And it grieves me…deeply. Because I thought perhaps that trump would be the impetus to place country over party, and to move you along into the wisdom that years bring…I was wrong…and “so be it”s rain down…because why? You think it a sin to not support a rapist who is the choice of all the white men in your party? And instead you double down…